7th Grade--Unit 1 Middle Ages

1. Sirs Discoverer, search terms--MiddleAges, "Help Wanted: Middle Age Jobs" (Lexile 1070)
2. Webpath Express, "Overview: The Middle Ages, 1154 - 1485"

9th Grade--Unit 2 The Novel

1. Webpath Express, Harper Lee.
2. Webpath Express, To Kill a Mockingbird, Reader's Guide by National Endowment for the Arts (this website also has a teacher's guide)

10th Grade--Unit 6 Latin and South America

1. Webpath Express, Isabel Allende (Chile, USA)
2. Webpath Express, Isabel Allende (text and video)
3. Webpath Express, The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

12th Grade--Unit 1 European Literature: Middle Ages

1. EBSCO Student Research Center, search terms Boccaccio.
"Boccaccio, Giovanni." By: Umberto Bosco. Britannica Biographies, 10/1/2010, p1, 2p; Reading Level (Lexile):
2. Webpath Express, Dante Alighieri.
3. Webpath Express, Digital Dante. (contains images, maps, background information, resources)

Other Examples:


Homeless Bird
  1. India Abortion of Girls on the Rise: Study (Flesch-Kincaid 14.2)
  2. Shunned From Society, Widows Flock to City to Die (Flesch-Kincaid 6.8)
  3. Dowry System and Women in India--personal narrative (Flesch-Kincaid 12.0)
  4. India's Dowry Deaths (Flesch-Kincaid 9.1)
  5. "India--Dating and Marriage," in Culturegrams in Pioneer Library

Witch of Blackbird Pond
  1. Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 (Flesch-Kincaid 12.2)
  2. Art--Images of Salem Witchcraft Trials
  3. Online catalog category--Witch of Blackbird Pond
  4. Salem Witchcraft Hysteria--National Geographic Interactive
  5. Original transcripts of the trials of Salem witches (primary sources)"
  6. "Puritans" (L-970) and "Quakers" (L-1010)--WorldBook Advanced
  7. Letter to the Editor 1899--Puritans justifying attitudes and acts towards the Quakers (Flesch-Kincaid 15.5)
Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1965
  1. EBSCO, Student Research Center. Mills, Nicolaus. "Remembering Selma 1965." christian Science Monitor 21 Mar 1995:
  2. EBSCO Student Research Center. Heinz, W. C. and Bard Lindeman. “The Meaning of the Selma March: GREAT DAY AT TRICKEMFORK.” Saturday Evening Post, 5/22/1965, Vol. 238 Issue 10, p30-95, 9p.
  3. EBSCO Student Research Center. Wells, Bill, et al. "GREAT DAY AT TRCKEM FORK, Letters to the Editor." , 6/19/1965, Vol. 238 Issue 12, p4-6, 2p

Lincoln: A Photobiography
  1. Mr. Lincoln's Personality

New Lexile Levels With Common Core






Helps in Determining and Understanding Lexiles

Destiny--Canyons Online Library Catalog
Lexile.com
Kansas Lexile Resources Page
Kansas Lexile Map

Your librarian can help you see how many books are in every lexile level in your library--example: